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Network Management System (NMS)

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Allowing SNMP Trap Alerts to be related to the actual device

In many cases SNMP Trap based are sent by a single SNMP Trap Forwarder. The Genesys Call Center software, NICE Recording Software, and vmWare vCenter are classic examples of this. From a recurring failure point of view, it gives the impression tha...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Ability to not create additional interfaces seen by Sflow.

With traditional NetFlow, there is an option in cluster manager to "Not create Ingress/Egress records". This limits the interfaces created by the NMS to only those interfaces forwarding flows. This option does not exist or work for Sflow. If you a...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Manually set interface speed

For devices that either don't have a speed such as virtual interfaces or interface where the speed can't be modified on the device side. It would be useful to be able to set the speed manually from SevOne. One example would be why we may not be ab...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Terraform for SevOne deployment

TF (Terraform) code to deploy SevOne appliances themselves from your image files and appropriate security groups to cover network communications to/from and between instances.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add possibility of new indicator types to the DNS poller object

Add support for various DNS records like TXT, MX, CNAME, etc. Option that checks whether the data received is the expected one.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Use DNS lookup in SevOne-fix-hosts-file

The SevOne-fix-hosts-file script currently uses SSH to get the hostname of each server in the cluster. In a large cluster, this script can take 2-3 hours to complete. Changing from a repetitive SSH to a DNS lookup cuts down the time considerably.
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the new report tab in reports after Upgrade SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6

Dear IBM Team, End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the reports tab in reports post Upgrade of SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6. In older version 5.6.2 , user's able to edit the reports and add new report tabs in opened report but ...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Alarm Co-relation and suppress downstream alarms when upstream device itself is down

Alarm Correlation and suppress downstream alarms when upstream device itself is down. currently if any site went down sevone will trigger node down alert for all the (n) devices in that location. Sevone should have some mechanism to identify and c...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration